Dalton said in his email that she was baptized in President Roxas Ward Capiz, Philippines. This must have been
the President of the Ward there.
Dalton Raphael Dunn was born this day 15 of August about 1:00 a.m.
He weighs 8 pounds-7 ounces and 20.5 inches long..
The first picture looks like he is smiling---what a great way to enter life.
This makes Mark and Rand both Grandfathers [for the first time] in the last couple of months. This is with the birth of Samuel and baby Dalton. Now there are 28 great grandchildren for Delma and Dale Dunn.
He lived at Brent House, Brentford, Middx.
He was instrumental in helping the flight of King Louis Philippe of France in 1848.
The sponsors at her baptism were Mattheu de Sausmarez, Marguerite Carey and Jeanne Perchard.
A Welsh squire of Wepre Hall, Oakenholt near Flint who later took the name of Owen.
The sponsors at her baptism were her sister Sophia, James Chreiton jnr. esq. and Eliza Creighton.
Died young.
When the Careys came to Guernsey is not known, but in the Assize Rolls of 1288 a John Karee is described as 'Coustumier en la Cour du Roi et en la Cour de l'Eglise'. Philip and John Caree held land in St Martin's parish in the C14th. The name
of Carrey is also found in the early records of Normandy and Brittany and was born by two of the defenders of Mont St Michel. John Jacob in his 'Bailiwick of Guernsey', part II, p.131 says that "The Pedigree of the Carey family, on which
reliance may be placed, traces their genealogy to Perrir Carey, 1450".He was ordained in 1842, appointed one of the curates of the Bishop of Winchester and in Oct 1846 presented to the Incumbency of St Johns.
In 1858 he published 'The Book of Job, translated from the Hebrew'.
Sponsors at her baptism were George Housom esq., Eliza Carteret Housom and Elizabeth Carey McCrea, her sister.
Named after his godfather, Lieut. Gen. Sir Herbert Taylor. K.C.B. His other sponsors were his brother Henry and his sister Sophia.
He was previously Lieutenant in the 94th Regt. He served in the 1st Kaffir War.
He was Paymaster of the 43rd Regt. and died on his way home from India, the last surviving son of Major Robert McCrea by his wife Sophie.
She lived at Croutes and died of a lung complaint.
He settled in Spain, starting a business at Alicante, the house of Carey & Co., before moving to Carthagena.
She was the daughter of General Rolandi of the Spanish Army.
Following his parents' deaths he was brought up by his Aunt Charlotte in Guernsey. His school number at Elizabeth College was 1545. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1878 as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of
England and Edinburgh.In 1879 he went to South Africa, where he did duty at the Military Hospital in Cape Town as Civilian Surgeon to HM's Forces. A year later he moved to Fort Beaufort to settle, but decided instead to join the 1st Regiment, Cape Mounted Yeomanry
as a surgeon. This year the Basutos rebelled when the Government tried to disarm them. Fighting took place on several fronts, with the main engagements taking place around Mafeteng, just across the Orange Free State border, where Colonel
Carrington was besieged with 200 Cape Mounted Riflemen. The relieving force, which included the CMY was surprised by a mounted Basuto force at Kalibani. In this, his first engagement, McCrea very narrowly escaped with his life. His batman, who
had been riding beside him, was killed together with 40 others.After being relieved, Carrington's force was increased to 2000 men, which included the CMR (400), three Regiments of the CMY (600), the Kimberley Horse (200), the Prince Alfred Volunteer Guards, the Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles, the
First City Volunteer Rifles and a number of Burgher volunteers. The Basuto commander, Lerothodi, had 23,000 mounted men armed with the most modern rifles, whose power and range far exceeded that of the colonial forces.On 14 January 1881, a misty and rainy day, Colonel Brabant, commander of the CMY, led a patrol of 180 infantry and 380 mounted men, equipped with two seven-pounders, and 400 burghers towards Thaba Tsueu, a mountain some 10 miles east of
Mafeteng. The patrol entered a wide, marshy valley flanked by steep ridges which rose gradually to a plateau on which lay the village of Sepechele. Lerothodi awaited the attackers with 8000 well-armed and mounted Basutos.Brabant ordered the Burghers to seize and burn a village called Radiamari, which lay on the right flank. Having done this they disregarded orders by pressing on to Sepechele. Suddenly Chief Maama led 3000 Basutos in a charge through the rain
and mist, forcing the burghers to retreat hastily to the main force. The CMR's 110 men dismounted and opened fire, effectively splitting the attack to the flanks. Chief Maama's force retired several hundred yards; and Chief Lerothodi's force
opened up with a heavy fire from the broken ground on three sides.On this field of battle known then as Tweefontein, McCrea then went forward to help the Burghers. During their hasty retreat 16 of them had been killed and 21 wounded. Surgeon McCrea, assisted by another officer, went out under heavy fire to
rescue a wounded burgher, conveying him to the shelter of a large ant-heap, and having placed him in a position of safety returned to the ambulance for a stretcher. Whilst on his way thither he was himself severely wounded by a bullet in the
right breast, notwithstanding which he continued to perform his duties at the ambulance, and again assisted to bring in several wounded men, continuing afterwards to attend the wounded during the remainder of the day and scarcely taking time to
dress his wound, which he was obliged to do himself, there being no other medical officer in the field. During all of this period the enemy kept up a heavy fusilade from a hollow about 200 yards ahead of the column, from a kopje 600 yards to
the right front as well as from dongas on the left. The action lasted for five hours, mostly in heavy rain, before the Basutos were finally driven from the plateau and its rocky sides. Had it not been for his gallantry and devotion, the
sufferings of the wounded would undoubtedly have been much aggravated and greater loss of life might have ensued.For this act Surgeon McCrea was awarded the Victoria Cross, which he received at a ceremony at King William's Town on 25 October 1881. He was promoted to Surgeon Major and transferred to the Cape Infantry Regiment. When this regiment disbanded
in February 1882, he transferred as Regimental Surgeon to the Cape Mounted Riflemen and joined the garrison at Kokstad where he met and married his wife.He died in service at Kokstad from lung inflammation following a bout of influenza, only seven years after his marriage.
(Much of the above is from chapter 8 of 'For Valour', author unknown and from the London Gazette, 28 June 1881. Basutoland is today known as Lesotho).
Photos of him exist in the Cape Town Military Museum and in the S.A. National Museum of Military History. There is also a painting of him tending a wounded Burgher at Tweefontein painted by Eric Wale of Cape Town at the Royal Army Medical
College, Millbank, London.
Elizabeth Antoinette Watermeyer
Known as Bessie, she met her husband at Kokstad.
She moved to Exmouth in 1914 and lived at 33 St Andrew's Road, dying 22 years later at the Exmouth Hospital.
They had no children.
Known descendants of his are Arlene Wood Hillman of Brentwood, California; Philip McCrea of St Charles, Indiana; Waunita McDermeit of Iola, Kansas.